All the best album are digital sounding...
Why so much obsessing over analog? All the best albums are digital sounding...
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- KVRAF
- 4222 posts since 23 Feb, 2004 from Tucson Arizona USA
Banging a pipe on a stone slab with Tony Levin and Jerry Marotta behind you.Gamma-UT wrote: But IV seemed to be mostly: "Hey guys, you can make funny sounds by banging a pipe on a stone slab and sampling it. Far out!"
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- KVRAF
- 4222 posts since 23 Feb, 2004 from Tucson Arizona USA
Banging a pipe on a stone slab with Tony Levin and Jerry Marotta behind you.Gamma-UT wrote: But IV seemed to be mostly: "Hey guys, you can make funny sounds by banging a pipe on a stone slab and sampling it. Far out!"
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- KVRAF
- 8238 posts since 22 Sep, 2008 from Windsor. UK
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- KVRAF
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- 2648 posts since 20 Jun, 2012
This has analog written all over:stillshaded wrote:Sorry but the albums you mentioned have analog written all over them.
These have not:
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- KVRist
- 131 posts since 4 Jul, 2007 from Tilburg, Netherlands
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- KVRAF
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- 2648 posts since 20 Jun, 2012
Exactly. I think out of the four first PG albums third one was strongest overall but fourth one was right up there as the second best. And actually creating really unique sound was the goal PG tried to achieve (and succeeded really well imho). The songwriting stayed high quality but the sound was pretty unique and nothing like that existed at that time.james0tucson wrote:Banging a pipe on a stone slab with Tony Levin and Jerry Marotta behind you.Gamma-UT wrote: But IV seemed to be mostly: "Hey guys, you can make funny sounds by banging a pipe on a stone slab and sampling it. Far out!"
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- Beware the Quoth
- 35529 posts since 4 Sep, 2001 from R'lyeh Oceanic Amusement Park and Funfair
So you're saying there are no analog synths with MIDI.Tricky-Loops wrote:I still don't know why a hardware synth with a DIGITAL chip is called "analog".
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- addled muppet weed
- 111341 posts since 26 Jan, 2003 from through the looking glass
i enjoy cooking, preparing a really nice meal from fresh ingredients.
sometimes though i really just fancy beans on toast.
sometimes though i really just fancy beans on toast.
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- KVRAF
- 2070 posts since 5 Oct, 2005
Don't you make your own beans ?vurt wrote: sometimes though i really just fancy beans on toast.
I much prefer getting dried Haricots and making my own tomato sauce to go with them.
Cheaper too.
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- addled muppet weed
- 111341 posts since 26 Jan, 2003 from through the looking glass
anything is possible, and its all good.Acid Mitch wrote:Don't you make your own beans ?vurt wrote: sometimes though i really just fancy beans on toast.
I much prefer getting dried Haricots and making my own tomato sauce to go with them.
Cheaper too.
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- KVRAF
- 25849 posts since 20 Jan, 2008 from a star near where you are
In my all time top 10 list I got three albums from the mid-80s:
Kate Bush Hounds of Love, and Sylvian's Gone to Earth and Secrets of the Beehive
Sylvian was clever with the synths, I think his crew was one of the few that bothered programming those early digital synths, those albums wouldn't be the same without the textures that are weaving in and out of the background, and they don't sound analog, not really digital either, but otherworldly
Kate Bush Hounds of Love, and Sylvian's Gone to Earth and Secrets of the Beehive
Sylvian was clever with the synths, I think his crew was one of the few that bothered programming those early digital synths, those albums wouldn't be the same without the textures that are weaving in and out of the background, and they don't sound analog, not really digital either, but otherworldly
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- KVRAF
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- 2648 posts since 20 Jun, 2012
All great albums! I'm not sure what synths they used though. Kate Bush obviously made heavy use of the Fairlight and Synclavier in addition to Prophet5 and EMU Emulator. Not sure what Sylvian used though. I'd guess D50 and M1 as they later also featured heavily alongside Wavestation (at the beginning of 1990's about the time the Fripp & Sylvian album came out).
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- KVRAF
- 8749 posts since 24 May, 2002 from Tutukaka, New Zealand
Wrong. Dark Side of the Moon, Low/Heroes, Rattus Norvegicus, Oxygene and The Wombles Greatest Hits have analogue written all over them. The albums you mentioned are of course not "the best" albums.Why so much obsessing over analog? All the best albums are digital sounding...
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- KVRAF
- 25849 posts since 20 Jan, 2008 from a star near where you are
I think Ryuichi Sakamato was more or less Sylvian's band leader on those albums, so I guess he would pick the synths that was used. Sylvian would go "I want this to sound like this or that", and then Sakamoto did his best to dial in such sounds on his gear.robotmonkey wrote:Not sure what Sylvian used though. I'd guess D50 and M1 as they later also featured heavily alongside Wavestation (at the beginning of 1990's about the time the Fripp & Sylvian album came out).
As both GTE and SOTB was recorded before D50/M1 was put out, I believe the DX7 must have been utilized.